ETF flip: BTC spot ETFs logged +$333 million on Sept. 2, led by Fidelity FBTC with +$133 million, while ETH spot ETFs posted –$135 million with no ETF seeing any inflows.
Institutional bids: Strategy bought 4,048 BTC with total holdings rising to 636,505 BTC at $73,765 cost basis, and 25.7% YTD BTC yield. SharpLink added 39,008 ETH to raise total holdings to 837,230 ETH at an average cost basis of $4,531.
Treasury & yield themes broaden: ETHZilla deploys $100 million ETH into EtherFi for restaking, while CEA Industries added 38,888 BNB, as holdings rise to 388,888 BNB with a goal for 1% of BNB supply by year-end. In addition, CleanCore raised $175 million for a DOGE treasury.
Macro cross-currents: Gold hit a record $3,600/oz (+33% YTD) as BTC traded largely decoupled from a flat S&P 500; tariff headlines and push for “bigger” rate cuts add policy noise.
Market structure: BTC currently holding $110k - $112k zone with dense cost basis at ~$110k (1–3m holders); only ~9% of supply sits in loss, which reflects a shallow dip by cycle standards. Mean coin-age for 3months and 6months on a gentle rise, signaling accumulation with 10k - 100k BTC cohort stable (no broad whale distribution).
Bhutan has hired 3iQ to earn yield on part of its Bitcoin and given Gelephu a central bank that can hold crypto, while disclosing less and less about the coins themselves.
A royal decree turns the Gelephu Financial Services Office into the Gelephu Central Bank, with monetary policy, reserve and payments powers and a path to a city currency. The timetable and its relationship with Bhutan's national central bank are unclear
Withdrawals reopened Sunday with a $3.6 billion net outflow and a proof-of-reserves snapshot is out, but Binance has not published its technical post-mortem or said how attackers got in beyond a compromised laptop
The bank says Hong Kong is the first market in its group to get the product for corporate clients, which settles between banks in central bank money around the clock. Blockhead reported a Singapore launch with Ant International in December